Hello again, dear readers! In the months since our last checkin, I decided to finally register for my second 50K race. My first was at Pineland, in New Gloucester Maine, in 2023. That didn’t go as well as I had hoped, and I vowed at the time that it would not be my only 50KContinue reading “9/18/25: Racing as Training”
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5/25/25: Vermont City Marathon Relay
For the second year in a row*, I returned to the site of my Very First MarathonTM to participate as a member of a relay team. This time it was a four-person team put together by my baseball teammate Dan Winters, along with two of his co-workers at the Vermont State University. Dan and IContinue reading “5/25/25: Vermont City Marathon Relay”
September 2024: A Tale of Two Trail Races
I’m going to pinball around 2024 a little bit as I catch up on this blog. I don’t plan to recap everything from 2024, but there are a few races to comment on, including these two very different trail races in September. The summer of 2024 was peppered with races that were not quite whatContinue reading “September 2024: A Tale of Two Trail Races”
10/28/23: Haunted Island 10K
Our trip to Bermuda in January made Katie and I realize that running is a great excuse to travel. Find a fun race in a fun place and go. Ideally also build in some time for being a tourist. The Haunted Island race idea was slightly inverted. I follow a blog called Uni-Watch, which isContinue reading “10/28/23: Haunted Island 10K”
5/5/24: Maine Coast Marathon
After four months of training, race day finally arrived, with pretty much ideal running conditions. Mostly cloudy skies, temperatures in the low 50s, no rain. This of course was my biggest concern for the whole race. After getting burned by heat and sunshine the past two years, I really wanted comfortable weather for my nextContinue reading “5/5/24: Maine Coast Marathon”
4/14/24 Training Update, and Kaynors Sap Run
I’ve officially completed 15 weeks of the 18-week training plan, and things are going fairly well. Yesterday was the last long run of the cycle. And now we’re on to taper for three weeks before the race on May 5. This is my second marathon. For the first one in 2022 I followed a 12-weekContinue reading “4/14/24 Training Update, and Kaynors Sap Run”
10/8/23: Land Of Light 25K
This was the second year running of this unique race in my home town, which I learned about through a Facebook push last year. There are a variety of choices to be had, from a 100K bike/run duathalon, to a not-quite-25K trail running race at several locations, to relays for both. I wanted to doContinue reading “10/8/23: Land Of Light 25K”
(Mostly) Finishing up 2023
My intention is to be focused on the present with this blog in 2024, but a big part of our history here is race recaps, and it feels unfinished with all the missing races in 2023. So rather than reflections on last weekend’s long run, let’s get caught up. 9/2/23: Northfield 5K: Things seemed toContinue reading “(Mostly) Finishing up 2023”
It’s been a minute, Blog
For that matter, it’s been a longer minute than I realized. I could have sworn I did an update after Pineland. I did not. I think I’ll re-engage with a rapid-fire review of the races I’ve run since my last update, which was the Paul Mailman 10 Miler in April. The one exception will beContinue reading “It’s been a minute, Blog”
4/15/23: Paul Mailman 10 Miler
This was my first race in three months, since the trip to Bermuda. Even so, it was a last-minute decision to sign up and run it. Katie and I signed up for the Pineland Trail Festival – 25K for her, 50K for me – which takes place at the end of May, and we’ve beenContinue reading “4/15/23: Paul Mailman 10 Miler”
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